Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-08-11
HOME. FARM AND GARDEN

For Hivea-Drink freely of nettls-
weed tea
Salt is said to be . preventive for
the damaging onion maggot
Keep yeur old geese for breeding
during next season. IS eggs from
young geese do not hatch well.
Roses Of all kinds delight in high
living and sunshine; you can not
starve them into their best behavior.
-Weesing the fruit plantation and
vegetable beds means simply q better
growth and an increased crop You
want both.
DO not locate any well where ie.
will have soakage from low ground.
barnyards. cesspools or privies. is ther
good advice of the New York Witness
The use of the digging-fork in
stead Of the spade ought to be much
more general than it is for garden
work, as more than double the work
can be done with. it in the same time
and with half the labor.
Surprise Cake.-One cup of sugar.
one half cup Of batter. one cup Of
sweet milk, one egg, one teaspoonfuf
Of soda, two teaspoonfuls of cream of
tartar. and stir in flour to make the
consistency of common cake mixture
Exchange.
"A wise parent can not afford to-
treat with Impotence or intolerance
even the crude or foolish opinions OF
his child. II so, the strong presump-
ton would be that the parent was.
wrong. whether the child was or not
ID. B. Updegraf, in Friends Expos
Her.
Apple Meringue.-Slice stale cake
and lay at the bottom of the baking
dish half-full. if one likes. Fill with
sifted stewed apples. well favored with
any aavoring preferred. Heat the,
whites of four eggs with half pound
of white sugar. Drop this icing in
spoonfuls over the pudding. place ip
the oven and bake light brown
Toledo Blade.
dough, take rs much rs will make one
loaf. Work into this one egg, one
heaping teaspoonful of lard. two of
white sugar. Set in warm place to.
rise. When light. work down. knead
again; when very light and puffy. roll
out. Cut with biscuit cutter. When
raised, bake twenty minutes in quick
Oven.-F'arm, Field and Stockman.
-Efervescing Lemonade. -The juice.
of a lemon, half pint Of cold water. a.
dessert-spOonful carbonate of castor
sugar; have small teaspoonful car
Donate of soda; squeeze the juice from
the lemon. strain, and add it to the
water, and sweeten the whole with the
sugar; when well mixed put in the
soda; stir we'll and drink while the
mixture is an effervescent state.-Cleve--
land Leader.
To cure diarrhea in fowls. take
new milk. say half cup for each fowl,
heat an iron poker, or any suit
able piece of iron. rel hot and
and scorch the milk with it; give as
warm as the fowl can stand it 1t is "a
sure cure for lOoseness in calves, colts
or humans. and will check looseness in
fowls. Give it to fowls with spoon-,
let it run down the roof of the mouth.
so that it will not get in the windpipe-
Troy Times.
Farmers must be governed by the
circumstances around them. What
they may do this year at profit cir
cumstances may make impossi bic next
year or make it loss to do it second
time. The most successful farmer is
the one that can use his surroundings
to the best advantage. You should
catch on to every favorable circum--
stance that surrounds you and make
the most of it, for this is what many
times makes the difference between n
profit or loss at the close of he years,
reckoning.